Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 on LKML last Sunday:Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new normal” thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we’d probably never have a release at all.
There are a number of fairly late reverts – the drm scheduling reverts stand out, but there’s a few other ones in here too. It may not be pretty, but it’s the correct way to deal with “oh, that code wasn’t ready and caused problems”. People will be trying that again later.
But while the drm reverts stand out and are some of the bigger patches in here, there’s a lot of small fixes all over. Mostly in drivers, but networking remained fairly active this last week too. And then there are a few random patches to architecture files and perf core.
With this, the merge window for 7.3 obviously opens tomorrow, and I already have 40 pending pull requests. I appreciate all the timely people. You know who you are,
LinusReleased mid-June 2026, Linux 7.1 brought us yet another version of the NTFS filesystem implementation, various security enhancements, a rewrite of the high-resolution timer core for better performance, among many other changes. It also removed support for legacy 486 subarchitectures such as M486, M486SX, and ELAN. But now that Linux 7.2 has been released, it’s time to look into some newsworthy changes and go through Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures in more detail.Notable changes in Linux 7.2
